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9:00
am

Welcome:
James H. Billington, Librarian of Congress Introduction: Norman Dorsen, Chair and Founding
Faculty Director, Global Law School Program, New York University
School of LawRubens Medina, Law Librarian of Congress

9:30
am – noon

Session 1Transnational Justice and National Sovereignty

Moderator:
Anne-Marie Slaughter, Professor, Harvard Law School
Commentator: Hisashi Owada, President, The Japan
Institute of International Affairs, Tokyo, Japan and Global
Law Faculty, New York University School of Law

Papers
Philip Allott, Professor, Trinity College, Cambridge,
England and Global Law Faculty, New York University School
of LawSandra Day O’Connor, Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme
Court Bruno Simma, Professor, Ludwig-Maximilians-University,
Munich, Germany, and University of Michigan Law School, Ann
Arbor, Michigan

2:00
pm – 4:30 pm

Session
2 Roles of Women: Norms and Culture

Moderator: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice,
U.S. Supreme Court Commentator:
Eva Cantarella, Professor of Roman Law, University
of Milan, Italy
and Global Law Faculty, New York University School of Law

Panelists
Thomas Franck, Professor and Director, Center for International
Studies, New York University School of Law, and President,
American Society of International Law Daniel Fung, Senior Counsel, Des Voeux Chambers, Hong
Kong Rosalyn Higgins, Judge, International Court of Justice,
The Hague

Moderator: Koichiro Fujikura, Professor, Tezukayama
University, Faculty of Law and Policy, Nara, Japan and Global
Law Faculty, New York University School of LawCommentator: Sidney Draggan, Senior Science
and Science Policy Advisor, U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency

PapersYuri Kostenko, Member, Parliament (Verkhovna Rada)
of Ukraine, Kyiv, UkraineRichard Stewart, Professor, New York University School
of Law Antonio Azuela, Attorney General for Environmental
Protection, Federal Government of Mexico

PanelistsShlomo Avineri, Professor, Department of Political
Science, Hebrew University, JerusalemAlex Boraine, Director, Project on Transitional Justice,
New York University School of Law, and Vice-Chairman, South
Africa Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Cape, South Africa
Luis Moreno Ocampo, Attorney, Moreno Ocampo Abogados,
Buenos Aires, Argentina; former prosecutor of Military Junta
Trial; and Professor at Buenos Aires University Law School

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9:00
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Session
5Religion, Culture, and Governance

Moderator: Jean Bethke Elshtain, Laura Spelman
Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics, The
University of Chicago Commentator: Stephen Holmes, Professor, Princeton
University, Department of Politics, Princeton, NJ and Professor,
New York University School of Law

PapersInder Kumar Gujral, Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha)
and Former Prime Minister of India, New Delhi, India Nur Vergin, Professor, Istanbul University, Faculty
of Political Science, Turkey Alexander
N. Domrin, Senior Research Fellow, Comparative Constitutional
Law and Parliamentary Division, Institute of Legislation and
Comparative Law, Moscow, Russia and Global Law Faculty, New
York University School of Law

Friday,
March 10, 2000
New York University School of Law, Vanderbilt Hall

9:00
am – 11:30 am

Session
6Corporate Power, National Sovereignty, and the Rule of
Law in a Global Economy

Papers
Daniel Tarullo, Professor, Georgetown University Law
Center, Washington, D.C.Michael John Trebilcock, Professor of Law and Economics,
University of Toronto Faculty of Law and Global Law Faculty,
New York University School of LawKo-Yung Tung, Vice President and General Counsel of
the World Bank, Washington, D.C.
Fali Nariman, Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha) and President,
The Bar Association of India, New Delhi, India (paper will
be presented in his absence)

2:00
pm – 4:30 pm

Session
7The State and Human Rights

Moderator: John M. Walker, Jr., Circuit Judge,
United States Court of Appeals for the Second CircuitCommentator: Ratna Kapur, Visiting Professor,
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law and Director, Centre of
Feminist Legal Research, New Delhi, India

PapersPhilip Alston, Professor, European University Institute,
Department of Law, Florence, Italy and Global Law Faculty,
New York University School of Law Robert Badinter, Senator, French Senate; former President
of the French Constitutional Court; Professor Emeritus, Université
de Paris; and Global Law Faculty, New York University School
of LawAndras Sajo, Professor, The Central European University,
Legal Studies, Budapest, Hungary and Global Law Faculty, New
York University School of Law